Most exciting time during gaming

[Rigel]

Aw, Jaz... that's so sad

But yeah, Doom was awsome

I have to say, though, that Tie Fighter had a truly awsome moment, when the other Ties first turn on you. One of my first (and best) "WTF" moments in gaming

[Cagliostro]

Damn I loved Doom when it came out. I was in college, and was broke, but managed to scrape together enough money to buy the full release (ordered over the phone, as that was the only way to order it at the time). I felt so dirty playing such a violent videogame, but it was too fun not to. I think it was the shotgun that felt particularly shocking.

I'd have to say the top for me was when my sister's boyfriend invited me over to his place to play on a computer he was borrowing from a friend. In particular, it was a game called Tunnels of Doom that we played. We did a 4 level dungeon, and I thought it was the coolest thing. I was a big Dungeons and Dragons freak in those days, and I felt like it was a pretty good taste of the "kill monster, get treasure, go to the next room" thing. I got a TI-99 a few years later once stores were trying to get rid of them and selling them for $50, and Tunnels of Doom is still one of my all time favorites. I break it out every now and again, although I now have it on an emulator.

[CovenantJr]

A little off-topic, but my most traumatic moment in gaming was when I was playing Planescape: Torment...

I've heard so much good stuff about that, I need to get it sometime.

[jelerak]

Mine would have to be getting the Congressional Medal of Honor in the Microprose classic Gunship on the ole C64.

Definately the biggest accompishment that I ever got in a video game.

[CovenantJr]

It's hard to say what my most exciting gaming moment was.

One of them was probably Knights of the Old Republic. If you've finished it, you know the bit I mean. (No spoilers here, please).

Another was beating the Fire Gigas in Secret of Mana. I fought that thing on and off for two years before I beat it. Mana was my first proper RPG (previously I'd played Zeldas and Zelda-alikes) so I'd never come across the idea of power levelling or farming gold. When I eventually hit upon those ideas myself and subsequently managed to kill the thing, I felt like I'd climbed a mountain.

Similarly, taking down Bloody Mary in Terrangima. That fight was so hard (and so tedious) that I actually ran around the house in excitement when she finally died.

Possibly the first 'wow' moment I remember, though, was when my brother upgraded from a Master System to a Mega Drive (Genesis in the US) and loaded up Sonic 2. The title screen left us both literally slack-jawed in amazement. I distinctly remember gaping. We'd never seen a game that looked so good.

[Gadget nee Jemcheeta]

Wow, that really shows your gaming pedigree. Terranigma was awesome.

[CovenantJr]

Hello sir. Seems like ages since I last saw you around.

Yes, Terranigma was a great game. I need to play it again at some point. I'm a hoarder, so I still have have my SNES and all its games.

[Gadget nee Jemcheeta]

Me too, even if I have the emulator for some reason it just isn't the same. Did you ever get to play Lufia 2 for the snes?

[CovenantJr]

Can't say I did. In fact, I don't even recognise the title.

[Seven Words]

Mine was pretty much the ENTIRETY of playing Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar for the Apple 2c. My copy was a bootleg, so I had NO documentation. Every key was a different command.."Hmm...W is Wear Armor....A is Attack....C is Cast a spell..M is Mix Reagents...". Not to mention every letter a spell, using one or more of the 8 magic reagents, you had to pre-mix your spells. I trial-and-errorred every spell....and being an arrogant member of the school's Academically Gifted program, I simply memorized rather than write them down. But eventually, I beat it. Months of playing, literally..but the premise just caught me....from the ethical choices in the Gypsy seer's tent in the very beginning, to the final act of opening the Codex of Ultimate Wisdom.

[Cagliostro]

Ultima IV was definitely amazing. I remember Ultima III with great amounts of excitement as well. I remembered being wowed by the intro music. But yeah....IV was definitely the peak of all the Ultimas in my opinion. It was to RPGs in the day what Final Fantasy VII was years later.

[Earthfriend]

Thank you everyone, for bringing back so many wonderful memories for me!

To this day, I still blame Doom for failing first year Biology. And the hours I spent, trying to beat Master of Orion on the huge universe setting - man, I had deployment lines running across the entire Galaxy!

But my MOST exciting moment....

Probably playing Starcraft over a LAN line with 5 of my friends - usually we'd play teams, or all of us against the computer, with the setting on hard.

Killing General RAAM on Insane playing co-op with my brother was pretty exhilarating too, I must admit.

[Seven Words]

I rememebr playing warcraft 2 on Bnet...superfond memory..2 v 2 match...about fifteen minutes in, my partners base area was discovered by the opposition...he dropped out. They offered to let me surrender, I said forget that. it was on teh Garden Of War map, with 50k gold mines. My enemies (yes, I remember their names) were OK_Ogre and Elvis Fett. I was human (yay for paladin healing!) I built IMPRESSIVE layered fixed defenses...put mobile troops in too, but skimmed some off, just put them aside....let them wear down the first five (literally) rows of defenses...they had just zeroed out their troops attacking, and then I sent the "put aside" people out, wiped Ogre...of course, getting to that point took an hour and a half. Took another 45 minutes to get Fett. But I won.

[Blackhawk]

Football:

I would have to say tossing the winning touchdown in madden from my own 2 yard line far up the right side with 0 seconds on the clock after the catch High stepping into the endzone and seeing my oponent disconnect in a fit of rage.

Xwing:

Destroying the Deathstar in Classic missions along with my first Star Destroyer kill after depleting its inventory of Tie Bombers,Fighters and Advanced. Xwing was very Exiting because I always wanted something to sim the space battles since i was about 10 or so..had to wait 15 years before that moment came.. graphics at the time were decent but the feel of the craft and the way it controlled was perfect. and getting to control the wingmen was pretty cool.

[Cagliostro]

I rememebr playing warcraft 2 on Bnet...superfond memory..2 v 2 match...about fifteen minutes in, my partners base area was discovered by the opposition...he dropped out. They offered to let me surrender, I said forget that. it was on teh Garden Of War map, with 50k gold mines. My enemies (yes, I remember their names) were OK_Ogre and Elvis Fett. I was human (yay for paladin healing!) I built IMPRESSIVE layered fixed defenses...put mobile troops in too, but skimmed some off, just put them aside....let them wear down the first five (literally) rows of defenses...they had just zeroed out their troops attacking, and then I sent the "put aside" people out, wiped Ogre...of course, getting to that point took an hour and a half. Took another 45 minutes to get Fett. But I won.

Weird. It was very shortlived, but I know I took the name of Elvis Fett a time or two. And it might have been one of the handful of times I played online Warcraft 2. Hmmm....I wonder if it was me that you crushed.

[CovenantJr]

I had a couple of exciting moments recently. One was when I had my first ever online deathmatch experience (Left 4 Dead). I wasn't sure what to expect, and playing online is so different from playing solo or split-screen. I'd played MMORPGs before, but they're actually not that different from offline RPGs in some ways.

On a related note, I was quite excited when I got my first accidental badass kill in Battlefield 1943 a couple of weeks ago. I was driving my boat ashore, and some guy ran down the beach at me. I knew I was a sitting duck in the boat, so I hopped out in the hope that the water was shallow enough to run - and the boat kept going and ploughed the guy into the sand while I aloofly stood by. I felt like James Bond.

I rememebr playing warcraft 2 on Bnet...superfond memory..2 v 2 match...about fifteen minutes in, my partners base area was discovered by the opposition...he dropped out. They offered to let me surrender, I said forget that. it was on teh Garden Of War map, with 50k gold mines. My enemies (yes, I remember their names) were OK_Ogre and Elvis Fett. I was human (yay for paladin healing!) I built IMPRESSIVE layered fixed defenses...put mobile troops in too, but skimmed some off, just put them aside....let them wear down the first five (literally) rows of defenses...they had just zeroed out their troops attacking, and then I sent the "put aside" people out, wiped Ogre...of course, getting to that point took an hour and a half. Took another 45 minutes to get Fett. But I won.

Weird. It was very shortlived, but I know I took the name of Elvis Fett a time or two. And it might have been one of the handful of times I played online Warcraft 2. Hmmm....I wonder if it was me that you crushed.

It doesn't strike me as a common choice of username. Eerie.

[Worm of Despite]

Any of the chaotic battles in Ultima Online... Often 40+ (one time over 150...five screens of people) fighting. Chaos, lag, quick death or glorious ass-kicking it was one hell of a happening that rarely occurs.

[I'm Murrin]

Renly Baratheon? Hehe. Looks like you had a George RR Martin fan there.

[Worm of Despite]

Lol. Yeah. There's so many rip-off names, and I figure that guy thought no one would know the series and went, Oh yes, I'm so original. I found it highly irksome to see a King on the battlefield. Another guy, the leader of the enemy guild, was named Escaflowne of all things (a so-so anime series). He also wore a bear on top of his head, which added to the...hell, poorness, confusion, campiness--all of that? It's beyond me, some of these people. At least I kicked ass--a psychotic, red bearded and long, greasy-haired heavy trooper named William Smit. I'm the one yelling "Conquest through fire and steel!" I also threw one of those Molotov cocktails at the beginning, so there was a generous list of people I was attacking over my head.

I may go back once I get a job. It's quite a singular experience!

[CovenantJr]

I saw someone in Shaiya called Bahgoon. Apparently it made him feel special when I recognised it.